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Siletz Bay, located at the south end of Lincoln city, is a very popular destination for beach-goers and clam diggers. Some of the highest density purple varnish clam beds are easily accessed here. Its proximity to the ocean also makes it a very productive seasonal crabbing area

Montana Pagano, a watershed restoration specialist with the Nez Percé Tribe and Kyle Bratcher, NE Oregon district fish biologist with Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife live in one of the best adventure spots in all of Oregon. The Eagle Cap Wilderness is the largest roadless area in the state, and of course their backyard is Hells Canyon. We chatted with Montana and Kyle about some safety and gear tips before heading out into the backcountry.

Is data a big part of your hunting experience? If not, you may want to think about adding it to your list of digital tools before putting in for controlled hunts. In this episode, we talk to ODFW's Justin Dion, the person responsible for compiling all the hunt reports and providing all of that information back to hunters in the form of Big Game Hunting Harvest Statistics. Be sure to check out the Point Summary Reports and don't forget about the Full Draw Report, available by going to Download Controlled Hunt Draw Reports in your Electronic Licensing System account.

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Spring bear is the first big game hunt of the year and a chance to dust off the boots and spend a spring day in the woods. Here’s the outlook for the 2022 season.

Spring means a new generation of wild animals on the landscape. With more people enjoying the great outdoors, that can mean more human/wildlife encounters. Wildlife biologist Anne Mary Myers talks about how those encounters often end badly for wild animals, especially young animals removed from the wild by well-meaning people. It’s important to understand that a young animal's chances of survival drop precipitously when they're removed from their natural environment.

Raising kids on the outdoors takes all kinds. Roscoe Chang's approach to parenting kids in the outdoors is to make it as fun as possible. When Roscoe signed his young son, Kenji, up for an ODFW shotgun skills clinic a few years ago, he had no idea it would lead his son into competitive trap shooting, but he's happy it did, because it gave him and his son one more way to connect around their passions for the outdoors, hunting, fishing and shooting sports. And it's one more way for Roscoe to pass down his hunting and fishing heritage, which

The Siuslaw River runs past the city of Florence and then flows for 4 miles to the Pacific ocean. Areas west of the 101 bridge feature excellent seasonal crabbing and even some good diving.

ODFW biologists share the latest updates for turkey hunting in their local district, as well as tips and tactics for bagging a bird.

ODFW biologists share the latest updates for turkey hunting in their local district, as well as tips and tactics for bagging a bird.

It’s April Fools! The perfect time to debunk some of the misnomers and myths around fish and wildlife management. This episode looks back at some of the persistent misinformation and incorrect assumptions around ODFW and some of the more complicated natural resource issues by revisiting some of the segments from our myth-busting episodes.

The Oregon Department of Transportation is the largest owner of stream crossings in the state of Oregon, and much of their culvert infrastructure is in need of repair. So, ODOT and ODFW developed the Culvert Repair Programmatic Agreement to address fish passage during temporary repairs to failing culverts. So far, the project has made more than 840 miles of newly accessible habitat available to fish, but there are thousands of culverts still in need of repair. We talk to ODOT's Fish Passage Coordinator Allen Gillette and ODFW's Fish Passage Liaison Pete Baki about the project in this week's podcast.

Herpetology is the study of amphibians and reptiles, and herping is the practice of going out to find amphibians and reptiles, Chris Cousins explains in this episode of the podcast. Cousins is a PhD candidate at Oregon State University, where he focuses much of his attention on some of Oregon's most elusive salamander species. Cousins shares a lot of his adventures on his Instagram and sat down to talk with us about what it’s like to make a life out of studying reptiles and amphibians.

Micah Rogers spends a lot of time looking through a microscope at the tiny world of phytoplankton, those microscopic, plant-like critters that make up the base of the marine food web. The reason she does this is to make sure none of those microorganisms is in such prevalence that it indicates a harmful algal bloom or HAB. When HAB's occur, they can raise toxicity levels in clams and crabs to the point of concern for public safety.

Crabbing can be good year-round but the best catches are in the winter. Tidal flats throughout the bay produce lots of gapers, cockles and softshell clams.

Zoos and aquariums are often the first places kids encounter some of the critters they will ultimately be fascinated with the rest of their lives. Dr. Kathayoon Khalil is a conservation psychologist who studies these interactions and works to improve the relationship that humans have towards nature through education. Of course many zoos and aquariums also play a quiet, behind-the-scenes role in conservation by raising and releasing threatened and endangered species back into their habitats. We talked to Dr. Khalil about her work in these spaces.